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    Yesterday

    Sarah and Lachlan Murdoch.

    Lachlan Murdoch returns home to executives on the edge

    The media mogul returns to Australia with global CEO Robert Thomson, grappling with another News Corp restructure.

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    • Mark Di Stefano
    Scott Morrison with US dignitaries including Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo.

    ScoMo brings Rudd closer to Trump

    At Washington DC in front of Republican dignitaries, Scott Morrison finally spoke to a room familiar with his cadence.

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    • Myriam Robin

    This Month

    Hancock Prospecting chairwoman Gina Rinehart.

    Gina Rinehart lobbies NGA to remove Indigenous portrait

    The country’s richest resident has made her displeasure privately known about a portrait at the national institution.

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    Deloitte chairman Tom Imbesi, Future Women founder Helen McCabe, Deloitte chief Adam Powick, and ex-politico Tony Smith at the National Press Club on Wednesday.

    Liontown’s Tim Goyder turns up to thank Jim Chalmers

    Heavy hitters wary of party political functions have grown fond of the National Press Club’s Great Hall lunch.

    • Myriam Robin
    Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

    Bull and the budget: supplicants take over Canberra 

    As the treasurer hands down his third budget, hasn’t he aroused a stupendous chorus of critics.

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    • Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
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    Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones is a powerful man indeed.

    PM’s pension now in the hands of Stephen Jones

    Five still-serving Labor parliamentarians will have their pension schemes tweaked by the financial services minister. As will all the nation’s senior judges.

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    • Myriam Robin
    Perpetual’s Greg Cooper must know who he’s dealing with.

    Perpetual’s Greg Cooper knows KKR well

    Perpetual’s now deputy-chairman is a distant relative on the KKR family tree.

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    • Myriam Robin
    BHP CEO Mike Henry temporarily joins the private mile high club.

    BHP’s Mike Henry traverses the globe by private jet

    The mining giant has rented a private jet for its global M&A push on Anglo American.

    • Mark Di Stefano
    Sportsbet’s commercial deals with the NRL and AFL give the company first-look access to advertising deals.

    Sportsbet’s secret NRL gambling funnel

    The bookmaker used a shell company to shield involvement in a tipping competition, which skirted advertising regulations and promoted gambling offers.

    • Mark Di Stefano
    Anthony Albanese got no credit from Seven West for his 20th prime ministerial visit to Perth.

    Seven makes Albo pay for Perth snub

    If you want to know the cost of inadvertently snubbing Seven in Perth, look no further than the front page of Wednesday’s The West Australian.

    • Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
    Seven West Media chairman Kerry Stokes.

    Billionaire Kerry Stokes takes it all very personally

    In the media business, he who controls distribution, controls all.

    • Mark Di Stefano and Myriam Robin
    Investor Daniel Besen has run into a little strife with the neighbour’s renovations.

    Daniel Besen’s mansion gets craned

    You might buy a $20 million trophy home with all the bells and whistles you can hope for. But who says someone won’t, one day, drop a crane on it. 

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    • Myriam Robin
    Tim Gurner chills out while receiving a magnesium infusion at his wellbeing establishment, Saint Haven, in Collingwood.

    Tim Gurner’s anti-ageing expert faces regulatory probe

    The Rich Lister and long-life advocate’s research svengali has been served with an interim prohibition order.

    • Mark Di Stefano
    Macquarie Capital’s Asia Pacific boss Tim Joyce.

    Macquarie’s Tim Joyce puts annual conference to good use

    There’s nothing like the annual Macquarie Australia conference to drive home the synergies available to the full-service investment bank.

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    • Myriam Robin
    Ruslan Kogan, founder and CEO of Kogan.com.

    Board bought time for Kogan execs to settle $17 million windfall

    Recently released emails show how the Kogan board delayed the settling of executive bonuses for cash, helping the return.

    • Mark Di Stefano
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    University of Wollongong academic Andy Schmulow is no polite critic.

    PwC’s failed complaint over professor’s spicy LinkedIn posts

    Andy Schmulow’s more polite jibes included calling PwC “a cancer” on society, “thugs in suits”, and a “parasite”. PwC reckons it’s all beyond the pale.

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    Peter Stefanovic has apologised to Keegan Payne live on-air following his highly criticised interview with the teenager last week.

    Stefanovic’s Indigenous teen clanger, brought to you by Sportsbet

    The online bookmaking giant turned the 19-year-old into a walking sandwich board for the company, showing (once again) it just can’t help itself.

    • Mark Di Stefano
    Vanessa Hudson says Qantas failed to communicate.

    Vanessa Hudson’s ACCC settlement is six months too late

    Vanessa Hudson could have made settling the ACCC case a hallmark of her regime. Nine months after her elevation, it’s a little late for that.

    • Myriam Robin
    Talal Yassine, of Crescent Wealth, welcomes the “new era of sharia-compliant personal wealth creation products”.

    Stephen Jones boosts dud Islamic super fund

    The minister in charge of the super sector still provides tacit endorsement to a fund that performs so badly it is being regulated out of stand-alone existence.

    • Myriam Robin
    Ruslan Kogan, CEO and founder of Kogan.

    Ruslan Kogan, tell ’em the price son

    Blessings never cease for the founder-CEO who keeps getting a great deal from his board.

    • Mark Di Stefano